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Jen Atkins
Jen Atkins is associate professor in the School of Dance at Florida State University where she teaches dance history. She is author of New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870–1920 (LSU Press, 2017), which won the Jules and Frances Landry Award for the most outstanding achievement in the field of southern studies. She also co-edited two anthologies, Perspectives on American Dance: The Twentieth Century and Perspectives on American Dance: The New Millennium (University Press of FL, 2018). She chairs the Dance & Dance Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association and works closely with PoP Moves: An International Research Group for Popular Dance and Performance. Her own research interests include social dance practices in her hometown of New Orleans, dance in popular culture (especially sci-fi, fantasy and martial arts screendance choreographies) and radical pedagogy. She is currently editing a textbook on dance in US popular culture and is serving as a 2022–23 Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies in Norway.
Contact: School of Dance, Florida State University, 130 Collegiate Loop, P.O. Box 3062120, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2120, USA.